📜WEB · Romans 7:23
What does Romans 7:23 mean?
"but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members."
— Romans 7:23 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.
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